272 CALYCIFLOR/E. 



Flowers whitish tinged with purple. Peduncle compressed, 

 striated, pubescent: pedicels 3-4 together, ] inch in length, 

 filiform, furnished with 3 small lanceolate bracteas at the in- 

 sertion ; clusters of pedicels distant. Calyx externally pubes- 

 cent, sub-bilabiate ; upper lip 2-fid with the divisions approxi- 

 mating ; lower 3-partite with the divisions subequal, lanceolate. 

 Standard obcordate. Legume resembling a hare's foot in mi- 

 niature, subterete, compressed, hispid with minute hooked 

 hairs ; joints 5-7, oblong ; the terminal one apiculated with a 

 persistent portion of the style. 



According to De Candolle, the racemes are opposite to a 

 leaf; but I have not observed this in any specimen I have met 

 with. Browne found this species a little beyond Guy's Hill. 

 It is very common by the roadsides in Port-Royal mountains. 



10. Desmodium triflorum. Three-flowered Des- 



modium. 



Stem filiform procumbent rooting pubescent, leaf- 

 lets obcordate glabrous above puberulous along the 

 nerves beneath, pedicels axillary 2-3 together 1- 

 flowered, joints of the legumes 3-4 semiorbiculate 

 hispidulous. 



Hedysarum triflorum, Swartz, Obs. 288. t. 6. f. 1. 



HAB By the road sides, and in cane-piece intervals. 



FL. November. 



A small plant common on our plains, by the roadsides and 

 in pastures. The flowers are minute, and, according to Swartz, 

 open about 10 o'clock in the morning, and close at 4 in the af- 

 ternoon. It is a native of different parts of the East, as well 

 as the West Indies. 



* * Papilionaceous plants, with the cotyledons thick 

 and fleshy. 



Tribe IV. Viciece. 



Legume many-seeded, dehiscent. Leaves cirrhose; 

 the first pair alternate. 



XIX. VICIA. Vetch. 



Calyx tubulose, 5-fid or 5-dentate. Stamens dia- 

 delphous. Style bearded beneath the stigma. Seed 

 with an oval or linear hilum. 



1. Vicia sativa. Common Vetch or Tare. 

 Leaflets 10-12 oblongo-retuse mucronulate, stir 



